Word: manchurian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...During the war's first two weeks, busy Russian-built Yak fighters and Ilyushin assault planes had taken a beating from U.S. jet planes. Then the Northern command apparently decided to husband its planes and airmen. U.S. observers guessed that the Reds had either withdrawn their planes to Manchurian bases, or had hidden them in underground hangars built into the Korean mountainside...
...Stalin shared this cover with China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, Japan's Emperor Hirohito and Henry Pu-Yi, the puppet Emperor of Manchukuo. The Japanese-led Manchurian army had clashed with Soviet-backed Mongol forces. Said TIME: "In the deep fastness of Western Asia, along nebulous frontiers supposed to divide Soviet power from the forces of Empire, battle was joined as a thousand Mongol rifles cracked and light Japanese tanks whirled into action. The fighting last week came as a grim climax. Preludes have been more than 100 frontier 'incidents' as the Japanese Empire...
...elder Paik, the colonel to whom I talked, had been sent by the Japanese to Manchukuo's Military Academy. He got his early military experience with the Manchurian puppet forces, fighting Chinese Communists of the Eighth Route Army...
Ever White. Southwest from Paektu along the Manchurian border flows the Yalu River, blue-green with melted snow and ice from its mountain source, and known to Koreans as the Am Nok (Green Duck). Springing northeast from Paektu, the cold Tumen River separates Korea from eastern Manchuria and Siberia. On the Yalu and along the swift-flowing tributaries of the Tumen stand the Japanese-built hydroelectric plants which, until the power lines were cut by the Communists at the 38th parallel, provided 90% of the electricity used in all Korea...
...first Soviet forces reoccupying the Ukraine kept to the cities. "But by and by," said the refugee leader, "the NKVD troops got stronger. They burned whole villages and killed thousands of people in reprisal [for U.P.A. attacks]. Three million Ukrainians were shipped to the Ural mines and to the Manchurian border...